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Te Kōrero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning

by Eileen Mueller, A. J. Ponder, Kevin Berry, Daniel Stride, Kevin G. Maclean, Robinne Weiss, Dan Rabarts, Sally McLennan, Piper Mejia, Paul Mannering, Jane Percival, Mouse Diver-Dudfield, I. K. Paterson-Harkness, Simon Petrie, Edwina Harvey, Darian Smith, Grant Stone, Gregory Dally, Mark English, Mike Reeves-McMillan, Sean Monaghan, Matt Cowens, Debbie Cowens, Alan Baxter ...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and ... Read more

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Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and
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The Cambridge Legal History of Australia

Edited by Peter Cane, Lisa Ford, Mark McMillan ...

Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the development of Australian settler law in the shadow of the British Empire; the interaction between settler law and First Nations people; and the possibility of meaningful ... Read more

$158.39 CAD

Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the development of Australian settler law in the shadow of the British Empire; the interaction between settler law and First Nations people; and the possibility of meaningful
... Read more
Clan and Tribal Perspectives on Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability

Indigenous Stories From Around the Globe

Edited by James C. Spee, Adela J. McMurray, Mark D. McMillan ...

From the Indigenous perspective, sustainability must be understood as a means of survival. In a climate of in-migration, clan and tribal communities have been forced to build sustainable solutions together to protect their sovereignty, recognition and mutual respect.In the midst of a global pandemic that threatens the economic and social well-being of millions of people, this edited collection ... Read more

$122.09 CAD

From the Indigenous perspective, sustainability must be understood as a means of survival. In a climate of in-migration, clan and tribal communities have been forced to build sustainable solutions together to protect their sovereignty, recognition and mutual respect.In the midst of a global pandemic that threatens the economic and social well-being of millions of people, this edited collection
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Keeping Hold of Justice

Encounters between Law and Colonialism

by Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan, Mark David McMillan ...

Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in ... Read more

$65.99 CAD

Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in
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The Human Planet

How We Created the Anthropocene

by Simon Lewis, Mark A. Maslin ...

Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

Series series Pelican Books
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10 hours 16 min

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Human Planet**, A Pelican Book,** by Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, read by Roy McMillan.Meteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in ... Read more

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Human Planet**, A Pelican Book,** by Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, read by Roy McMillan.Meteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in
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Booked!: The Complete Series 1-6

The BBC Radio 4 literary panel game

by Ian McMillan ...

Narrated by Simon Armitage, Arthur Smith, Ian McMillan, Helen Lederer, Mark Radcliffe, Sophie Hannah, Stuart Maconie, Linda Smith, Mark Steel, Roger McGough0 ...

Unabridged

17 hours 10 min

All 36 episodes of the maverick literary quizPoet Ian McMillan is our host in this gleeful game of literary tomfoolery, outrageous parody and biting wit. Joining him for some lighthearted competitive wordplay are a quartet of writers and comedians, all ready and eager to run riot through the halls of great literature.Their bookish challenges include 'New Beginnings and Endings', which sees them ... Read more

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All 36 episodes of the maverick literary quizPoet Ian McMillan is our host in this gleeful game of literary tomfoolery, outrageous parody and biting wit. Joining him for some lighthearted competitive wordplay are a quartet of writers and comedians, all ready and eager to run riot through the halls of great literature.Their bookish challenges include 'New Beginnings and Endings', which sees them
... Read more

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You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan

A Shocking True Story of Internet Stalking

by Susan Fensten ...

Narrated by Linda Jones ...

Unabridged

12 hours 41 min

A firsthand look at a notorious Internet stalking campaign that the FBI described as a case "in a category by itself"—in the words of the victim herself.After her father died in 2003, Susan Fensten turned to a genealogy message board to search for surviving relatives. Days later, she was delighted to receive an email from someone claiming to be a distant cousin. In fact, Susan had just been ... Read more

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A firsthand look at a notorious Internet stalking campaign that the FBI described as a case "in a category by itself"—in the words of the victim herself.After her father died in 2003, Susan Fensten turned to a genealogy message board to search for surviving relatives. Days later, she was delighted to receive an email from someone claiming to be a distant cousin. In fact, Susan had just been
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Surrender, White People!

Our Unconditional Terms for Peace

by D. L. Hughley, Doug Moe ...

Narrated by D. L. Hughley ...

Unabridged

5 hours 2 min

Surrender, white people! After 400 years of white supremacy in America, a reckoning is here. Time to listen up, look history in the face, and surrender unjustprivilege. These are the terms of peace–and they are unconditional. Hope you have a sense of humor, because this is gonna sting.The legendary activist/comedian and author of the “hilarious yet soul-shaking” (Black Enterprise) ... ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

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Surrender, white people! After 400 years of white supremacy in America, a reckoning is here. Time to listen up, look history in the face, and surrender unjustprivilege. These are the terms of peace–and they are unconditional. Hope you have a sense of humor, because this is gonna sting.The legendary activist/comedian and author of the “hilarious yet soul-shaking” (Black Enterprise) ...
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The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family

The Despensers

by Kathryn Warner ...

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great influence, and Hugh the Younger's greed and tyranny brought down a king for the first time in English history and almost destroyed his own family.The ... Read more

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The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover. He and his father Hugh the Elder wielded great influence, and Hugh the Younger's greed and tyranny brought down a king for the first time in English history and almost destroyed his own family.The
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Washington

The Making of the American Capital

by Fergus M. Bordewich ...

Narrated by Richard Allen ...

Unabridged

12 hours 47 min

Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of unbridled land speculation—our nation's capital?In Washington ... Read more

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Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of unbridled land speculation—our nation's capital?In Washington
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Why Read the Classics?

by Italo Calvino ...

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

Unabridged

9 hours 42 min

“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.”—from Why Read the Classics?Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in ... Read more

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“All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.”—from Why Read the Classics?Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in
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Sister Aimee

The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson

by Daniel Mark Epstein ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

Unabridged

16 hours 54 min

The true story of America's first superstar evangelist that "fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" (The New York Times Book Review).Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to "miracle woman"—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United ... Read more

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The true story of America's first superstar evangelist that "fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" (The New York Times Book Review).Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to "miracle woman"—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United
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